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My Pilot: A Story of War, Love, and ALS
Paperback
Biographies GeneralHealth GeneralVietnam War
Publisher: Pinesfield Prose
Published: Dec 20 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
My Pilot: A Story of War, Love, and ALS is a deeply moving memoir of devotion, sacrifice, and endurance told through the eyes of a military wife whose life is shaped by love, war, and unimaginable loss.
When Sarajane Giere marries a young Air Force pilot in the early 1960s, she enters a world defined by constant relocation, long separations, and the ever-present shadow of danger. As her husband flies combat missions during the Vietnam War, she navigates the challenges of military life-raising children, sustaining a marriage across oceans, and confronting the quiet fears known only to those left behind.
Years later, the battle shifts from the skies to their home when her husband is diagnosed with ALS. With honesty, grace, and quiet strength, Giere chronicles the transformation of a heroic pilot into a man fighting an unforgiving disease, and the profound role of a wife who becomes caregiver, advocate, and witness to courage in its most intimate form.
Blending vivid historical detail with personal reflection, My Pilot offers a rare and poignant perspective on the Vietnam War, the resilience of military families, and the enduring power of love tested by time, illness, and sacrifice. This is not only a story of war, but of marriage lived fully-in sickness and in health-and of a woman whose steadfast devotion proves that heroism exists far beyond the battlefield.
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